NUFORC Sighting 16471

Occurred: 1997-11-15 22:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2001-02-14 00:00 Pacific
Duration: 3 mins
No of observers: 2

Location: Eureka, CA, USA

Shape: Triangle
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aircraft nearby

large slow moving triange-shaped aircraft flies over Eureka California... 1997

at about 10 0'clock on a weekday night (I can't remmember exactly what day it was, becuse it was a few years ago) I saw a triangle craft that appeared to be anywhere from 50ft to 200ft in length (I couldn't be sure, I have no experience with determining aircraft length), on the bottem side, it had three ultra-bright lights down the center from front to aft... two red lights on the left side, (one was pulsating), one green light on the right side... On the Aft side, it had what appeared to be two very large engines which glowed orange, but had no afterburn/flames/variation in intensity... the object made no noise that I was aware of, and had no wings/rudder/rotar blades/elevator/landing gear/windows/antenie/flaps/markings of any kind/etc... the object was moving slowly in a south-east direction, and took about 5 mins to disapear over the horrizon. In addition to the craft discribed above, I witnessed several red blinking lights just above the horrizon in all directions... I would estimate about 12 red lights... however, there is not very much air traffic in my town.

NUFORC Note:

Date is approximate. PD

Posted 2001-02-18